Measurement Of Intelligence Quiz 5 (30 MCQs)

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1. These tests attempt to predict the test takers future performance.
2. To learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
3. ..... reliability is when a test gives a similar score when an individual takes the test twice but it may be 3 months later.
4. A commonly used individual intelligence test is
5. What is the ability to learn from experience, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with others?
6. ..... is the ability to acquire new ideas and new behavior and adapt them to new situations.
7. Performance-impairing anxiety is most closely associated with
8. Which theorist created the "triarchic theory"
9. Psychologists use ..... to assess individuals' mental aptitudes and compare them with those of others.
10. At this age a child normally has an average vocabulary of about 10, 00 words
11. What nature of intelligence that uses logic and solving problems in new or novel situations without reference to pre-existing knowledge?
12. Which theoriest originally argued against a g factor or general intelligence but couldn't find reliable evidence to shoot the theory down?
13. According to Dr. Howard Gardner, how many types of intelligence are there?
14. Savant syndrome lends support to which theory of intelligence?
15. What would be true of a thermometer that always reads three degrees off?
16. A test that is designed to show what you have already learned (such as an AP test) is considered a ..... test.
17. The level in which one can perceive, understand, manage, and utilize emotions to handle relationships was researched and defined by:
18. Sternberg believed intelligence was evident in many factors, but these factors boiled down what types of intelligences?
19. Who coined the phrase "nature vs. nurture" and wrote Hereditary Genius?
20. Each and every person is .....
21. The home environment and styles of parenting
22. Which of the following is another word for reliability?
23. Between which of the following cases would you expect to find the greatest similarity in IQ?
24. What is an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning?
25. Mental Age is .....
26. What is the term for the smallest unit of language that carries meaning. It may be a word or even a part of a word.
27. When a test is reliable .....
28. What term refers to the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood?
29. In a normal curve, about ..... % of scores fall within one standard deviation of the mean.
30. Which theoriest attempted to take Binet's test and adopt in in California as a measure of the intelligence in which one was born with? It became known as the Stanford-Binet.